Fethullah Gülen

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Dear Prime Minister Davutoğlu: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express alarm at a fresh wave of anti-press actions in Turkey and to ask that you use the power of your office to reverse the measures.

New York, December 14, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's raids on media outlets in which police detained journalists and media workers on politicized anti-state charges. Among those detained today were Ekrem Dumanlı, editor-in-chief of Zaman, one of Turkey's largest dailies, and Hidayet Karaca, chairman of the Samanyolu Broadcast Group, reports said.

The state-run Anadolu news agency reported on July 10, 2014, that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office to launch a criminal investigation against Bülent Keneş, editor-in-chief of the English-language daily newspaper Today's Zaman, on charges of "insulting a public official."

In Istanbul, the trial
of several suspects in the case of Odatv,
an ultranationalist website harshly critical of the government, continues to
great consternation. When the
case began in early 2011, a dozen journalists were charged, 10 of whom were
incarcerated. The prosecution said Odatv
staffers, along with prominent investigative reporters Ahmet
Şık and Nedim Şener, were involved in the alleged Ergenekon
plot--a supposed large-scale conspiracy to overthrow the government of Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.